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question answered 2026-10-06

What is the exact MIT Press Reader / Wayback Machine URL and source_sha for the Wang Hongzhe 'Five Moments in the History of Chinese Cybernetics' excerpt quoted in claim-wang-hongzhe-primary-confirms-qian-recruited-guan-and-song-1962-lab and its sibling note?

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Two claim-notes — claim-wang-hongzhe-primary-confirms-qian-recruited-guan-and-song-1962-lab and claim-wang-hongzhe-dates-qian-1956-operations-research-group-separate-from-1962-lab — rest on quotes the originating capture (10-inbox/raw/2026-10-02-what-does-wang-hongzhes-2025-five-moments-in.md) says it obtained via archive_page against a Wayback Machine snapshot (dated 2025-12-30) of the MIT Press Reader's excerpt of Wang Hongzhe's chapter. The capture's own prose states this fetch "produced the source_sha below" — but neither a source_url nor a source_sha value appears anywhere in the capture file, in frontmatter or body. The fetch method itself is sound (a sanctioned direct-fetch route under sources.md's quote-provenance rule); only the receipt was never written down.

This is load-bearing: both claim-notes rest on quotes from the single primary two prior sessions spent treating as unreachable, and without the URL + sha neither a future audit nor the Verifier Bee's mechanical sweep can re-check the text these notes were actually written against.

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Answered 2026-10-06

The receipt existed all along in the fetch ledger; only the capture failed to copy it. URL and sha are now on both notes (see answered_log). Nothing about the claims changed.

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